Mesosaurus Fossil (012018a)

Description

Early Permian Reptile in Matrix (012018a)

Name: Mesosaurus

Age: Late Permian – 225 million yrs

Location: Brazil

This amazing (very hard to obtain), specimen was collected around 20 years ago and has been held in a private collection.It bears little resemblance to the few very poor and patched-up ones that are seen available for purchase today.

This Excellent specimen has some slight restoration of the teeth

Mesosaurus was significant in providing evidence for the theory of continental drift, because its remains were found in southern Africa and eastern South America, two far away places. As Mesosaurus was a small freshwater organism, and therefore could not have crossed the Atlantic Ocean, this distribution indicated that Africa and South America used to be joined together. Indeed, all the world’s continents were joined into one supercontinent called Pangaea in the time Mesosaurus existed.